From: Mohsin Bashir Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 23:01:45 +0000 (-0800) Subject: net: ethtool: Track pause storm events X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc39325f927850473d3a84b029ae6f9b508e9bd1;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git net: ethtool: Track pause storm events With TX pause enabled, if a device is unable to pass packets up to the stack (e.g., CPU is hanged), the device can cause pause storm. Given that devices can have native support to protect the neighbor from such flooding, such events need some tracking. This support is to track TX pause storm events for better observability. Reviewed-by: Oleksij Rempel Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Mohsin Bashir Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302230149.1580195-2-mohsin.bashr@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni --- diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml index 0a2d2343f79ac..4707063af3b49 100644 --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml @@ -879,6 +879,19 @@ attribute-sets: - name: rx-frames type: u64 + - + name: tx-pause-storm-events + type: u64 + doc: >- + TX pause storm event count. Increments each time device + detects that its pause assertion condition has been true + for too long for normal operation. As a result, the device + has temporarily disabled its own Pause TX function to + protect the network from itself. + This counter should never increment under normal overload + conditions; it indicates catastrophic failure like an OS + crash. The rate of incrementing is implementation specific. + - name: pause attr-cnt-name: __ethtool-a-pause-cnt diff --git a/include/linux/ethtool.h b/include/linux/ethtool.h index 798abec67a1b0..83c3758408357 100644 --- a/include/linux/ethtool.h +++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h @@ -512,12 +512,14 @@ struct ethtool_eth_ctrl_stats { * * Equivalent to `30.3.4.3 aPAUSEMACCtrlFramesReceived` * from the standard. + * @tx_pause_storm_events: TX pause storm event count (see ethtool.yaml). */ struct ethtool_pause_stats { enum ethtool_mac_stats_src src; struct_group(stats, u64 tx_pause_frames; u64 rx_pause_frames; + u64 tx_pause_storm_events; ); }; diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink_generated.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink_generated.h index 556a0c834df53..114b830172973 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink_generated.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink_generated.h @@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ enum { ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_PAD, ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_TX_FRAMES, ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_RX_FRAMES, + ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_TX_PAUSE_STORM_EVENTS, __ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_CNT, ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_MAX = (__ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_CNT - 1) diff --git a/net/ethtool/pause.c b/net/ethtool/pause.c index 0f9af1e665484..5d28f642764c3 100644 --- a/net/ethtool/pause.c +++ b/net/ethtool/pause.c @@ -130,7 +130,9 @@ static int pause_put_stats(struct sk_buff *skb, if (ethtool_put_stat(skb, pause_stats->tx_pause_frames, ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_TX_FRAMES, pad) || ethtool_put_stat(skb, pause_stats->rx_pause_frames, - ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_RX_FRAMES, pad)) + ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_RX_FRAMES, pad) || + ethtool_put_stat(skb, pause_stats->tx_pause_storm_events, + ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_TX_PAUSE_STORM_EVENTS, pad)) goto err_cancel; nla_nest_end(skb, nest);